Virginia Methodists Call For Gay Inclusion

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More than 40 United Methodist ministers in the Richmond area have used Christmas to call for the denomination to be more welcoming to gays and lesbians.

In a full page ad in the Richmond Times-Dispatch 44 pastors of area churches signed a letter criticizing the church's highest court for reinstating a minister who refused to allow a gay man to join his parish.

Last month the Judicial Council ordered the reinstatement of the Rev. Edward Johnson to his rural Virginia church. The Council said Johnson was within his ministerial rights when he denied membership to the would-be parishioner last winter. (story)

The $3,000 ad, in Saturday editions of the paper, was paid for personally by the 44 pastors - almost a quarter of the 180 active and retired ministers in the Virginia Conference's Richmond District.


Just wondering if anyone saw this ad